Egggggcitable E
Beginning Reading Design
Rationale:
Phonemic Awareness is important in beginning reading. Phonemic
Awareness also
helps children learn how to spell better. This lesson teaches the e=/e/
correspondence.
Materials:
Primary paper, pencils, Red Gets Fed, letters for Elkonain boxes.
Elkonain
boxes. Words for lessons. Red fed, bed, Ed, best fresh. R, e, d, f, b,
s t h
1)
Start
off by
saying writing is a secret adventure that only human beings get to
take. Today
on that adventure we are going to discover e=/e/. Sometimes /e/ can be
difficult to hear or find in a word, but we are going to practice to
make it
not so hard.
2)
Do
you have
grandparents who are hard of hearing? Do they go eh a lot? Do they put
their
hand behind their ear like this when they say eh? (Model) Lets practice
saying,
“Eh, what did you say?” all together.
3)
Now
lets say
a tongue twister. Edgar the Elephant is excellent. When you hear the
/e/ sound,
I want you to put your hands behind your ears like we did earlier. Now
lets say
it together. Edgar the elephant is excellent, and one last time say it
by
yourselves.
4)
Now
lets
practice writing the /e/ sound. Take out your pencil and paper. Who can
tell me
how to spell beg. Come write it on the dry erase board while everyone
gives it
a try on their paper. bbbb is the first sound. eeee is the second.
ggggg is the
third. Lets get into your groups and see how many /e/ words we can come
up with
and write them down on your papers. After everyone is finished we will
write
our lists up on the board.
5)
Sound
out and
model how to use the letterbox lesson. Everyone ready to practice using
our
Elkonain boxes? I will tell you the number of boxes to put out and I
will call
out the word. Do this work individually. Try to do the best you can and
we will
spell the word out after everyone has taken a shot at it. The words
are,
red,fed,bed,ed,best,fresh.
6)
Lets
practice
some more in pairs. Read together Red Gets Fed and every time you or
your
partner hear a /e/ sound in a word. I want you to put a tally makr down
and we
will see how many /e/ sound words you guys found in Red Gets Fed.
7)
For
assessment: While you and your partner are working I will call each of
you up
to my desk. I will have a paragraph full of short /e/ sounds and I want
you to
tell me how many short /e/ sounds you hear.
References:
Murray, B.A. and T. Lesniak
(1999). The
Letterbox Lesson: A hands on approach to teaching decoding. The Reading
Teacher, 52, 644-650
The Reading Genie Website. www.auburn.edu/rdggenie
Educational Insights. Red Gets
Fed
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